I tried looking at commit history for few repos and was prompted login to view them. Not sure what logic in deciding you had to login to view commit history. Especially when you can clone the repo to local and view it there.
GitHub has been blocked multiple times by CCP for repos related to Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong. And there have been a few large-scale ddos attacks very openly coordinated from China.
So I guess it was just a matter of time before this would happen. I assume they will block GitHub permanently now.
Guess what, I just registered a test account, and poked a little bit for fun (Somebody already took the username I wanted so I'm not in the mood to actually use their service). I found that at least their URL routing system is not well-thought.
See, they have a "Self Services" system under the HTTP path "/self_services", and the path to an user profile is formatted like "/username", the path to a repository is formatted like "/username/repositoryname".
- Then, I registered a user named "self_services" (successfully, surprise!), and created a repository: https://gitee.com/self_services/test-repo. Yeah, that just happened.
I guess they are using a big global Routing Table instead of a staged one. Hope can get it they fixed, because it could be a hole in their security.
I assume they couldn't use github because of the US sanctions? I also wonder how much open sourcing will help turn this OS into the Android killer that some had hyped and hoped it to be?
Maybe not an Android killer, but something to help Android improve in the long run?
I'm getting tired of Google making all decisions. With each release they are adding more useless functions that by some odd chance helps them access more of my data.
New function in Android 13: UnmuggDroid: by always having the mic on, Google can detect when you are being mugged and contact the authorities. We have also removed the possibility of turning off the GPS, to provide everyone a better user experience.
Are you sure they don't have the mic on constantly already? I swear, the number of times the ads that were shown to me were absolutely spot on, even though I've not done any searchs online to indicate those were the things I wanted. The only explanation I have is my Android phone overhearing some of my conversations. Or am I being super paranoid?
There have been apps actually doing this on both Android and iOS (e.g. the Spanish football app).
But everyone have been quick to plug this hole. Android now warns you if this happens, and Google has thrown out apps that did this (unfortunately mostly legitimate recording apps).
You are free to test this yourself: talk a whole week about your new dog and how you are desperate to find good dog food and see what happens.
(Mentioning dog food since this is how one YouTuber tested this with Cortana on PC)
Thinking about it, my need to constantly remind my Android phone to f Google (I actually don't hate Google, I do it just in case they are overhearing me...) is already a sign that I am being paranoid.
Just an anecdote, and probably more on topic: Some western reporter changed her WeChat (Chinese chat app & more) password to fkCCP. 10 minutes later her account was deleted.
I'd guess at least 50% of the female population under 30 of where I live would welcome such a feature. Especially during darkness they are always talking on the phone, or simulating to be in a talk with someone.
Which is obvious when you see them long before they see you, and when they do, begin to bubble stuff.
AlwaysSafe: by always having the mic on, Google can detect when you are being mugged and contact the authorities.
CleaySky: GPS is now always active to provide a better user experience. Family accounts also share their location with each other in real-time!
FastBrowse: we use Google servers to compress all your browsing traffic (this includes 3rd party browsers) to minimize data usage and reduce latencies.
BigMac: All devices will now use randomized MAC addresses for wifi and Bluetooth to improve privacy. (For the technical reasons this function will only work if you are a Nest costumer or have a Google Home device).
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(This is a joke people. Although, Google being Google, I can picture this happening)
Gitee is in China what Github/Gitlab is in the rest of the world. I wouldn't have expected a Chinese company to publish their sources anywhere else, really.
Because of threat of US sanctions Harmony OS is very attractive to phone companies in China. Open source helps but it is still dependent on a services component (corresponding to Google Mobile Services - a server component for messaging, map, app store, app validation etc.).
Github is often inaccessible in some countries. From memory I recall Iran, Russia, China and Turkey (US sanctions, hosting political stuff or bomb manuals). Less mainstream sites are bit more reliable.
Why is the description written like it's authored by a marketing team for executives to read, neither of which would understand what's being described?
GPLv2 and Apache v2 are not compatible due to the patent grants, so I think the Apache v2 licensed code ought to be covered by another license or else it would be a breach of copyright. In general if you mix up BSD licensed software with GPL code, the combined program is considered a derivative and it's distributed under the GPL itself. The original BSD-licensed files are still under the BSD, but anything that directly refers to GPL code (i.e., glue code, anything that #include s a GPL header) is under GPL too.
No mobile beta comes out at the end of this year, and for other more personal computing devices at the end of next year. At least that is my assumption when they mentioned devices with more then 4gb of ram.
"Awesome-HarmonyOS" is something like a fansite, nothing official. Gitee also isn't their "own" platform. Some of Huawei's projects have their code hosted by Huawei themselves (e.g. https://code.opensource.huaweicloud.com/HarmonyOS/OpenArkCom... ) but that platform is just horrible (especially on mobile), so it's probably a good thing they switched to Gitee instead.
You mention downthread that you're Russian. We've had to respond to similar anti-Russian slurs on this site in the past. It's not ok for any user to post like this about any country, people, or language. HN's Chinese users (and users with China-related backgrounds) have as much right to be here as Russian users (and users with Russian backgrounds) and any other users with any other backgrounds.
Come on, you can't expect the whole world to speak your language, especially since this was a project that was closed and internal until a very short time ago.
Also Mandarin is not an obscure or uncommon language at all (it's the #1 most spoken language in the world AFAIK). If someone cares enough about this they can just hire a random guy and get the parts in Mandarin translated; someone will probably do this for free in its spare time anyway. Given that I personally know at least 3 person that know both English and Mandarin, I think there's no shortage of bilingual developers out there.
Mandarin isn't the #1 spoken language (), certainly not under software engineers, and is geographically very limited. And while speaking it may be about as hard as any other language, reading and writing are definitely more complex than English.
Having a source code release full of Chinese comments is still better than not having the source at all.
Nobody owes anything to anyone in FOSS, and it's not like they did that with the purpose of hindering comprehension from foreigners; that's what their developers probably wrote by themselves during development.
They should educate their developers before allowing them to write and release code to public. Educate in many ways, not just to write in English, but to write appropriate code that follows established rules and practices, the code that is clean of commented out lines of rudimental code. Otherwise in some fraction of time we get overwhelmed with cryptic unreadable, unmaitainable code that noone understands. I don't think open source community deserves this.
I myself rarely release my code to public exactly by this same reason - I consider it buggy, bogus and does not deserve to be published.
And yes I have to deal with chinese written code quite a lot (because we are using chinese microcontrollers and CPUs in our devices) and I'm damn tired of that bad smelling stuff.
PS: I'm russian, English is not my first, but I do prefer to use English for all that is related to programming and electronics engineering.
One can communicate in any language as much as one wants to, but as for engineering there are such things as industry standards and "good practices" one should obey to to get others (presumably on the other side of the world) understand your engineering sulutions and decisions. Following your logic why no use hieroglyphs in variable names and other specifiers ? How will you cope with that ?
Looking at a random project, the interface pretty much a direct clone: https://gitee.com/YanceSpring/F-IM